What do you post on Linkedin?

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Eurgh, I'm not a fan of Linkedin. The importance of it in terms of career isn't wasted on me but the crap people post is often cringeworthy. I've had an awesome year in terms of getting my cleaning team on-side, they were on the cusp of leaving when I joined the company and took them on, nowadays their productivity has doubled, their morale has risen significantly, outgoing costs has halved and they even bought me a "world's best boss" trophy for Christmas.

Would you post this on Linkedin?
 
Always totally avoided the place, get the occasional invite from folks but ignore, sounds like a load of pretentious ******* if that's what's posted :p
 
I only post on when work hunting, it's great for that (always get messages from recruiters & HR teams) but the day to day stuff I never post anything as it's more cringeworthy than Facebook (which I also post very little on).
 
Social media in general is not my favourite thing in the world, but LinkedIn has to be amongst the most cringeworthy, boring place to spend time. It just comes across as people patting each other on the back at how successful they perceive themselves to be. As you can probably guess, I don’t post anything on there, or indeed, even bother visiting.
 
Rarely post on there, unless I'm at a work related event/show or something and ask if anyone wants to meet with me to talk about the products I look after at work. I also post the odd job advert on there, I get referral money if someone I know gets a job :D.
 
Diddums said:
Eurgh, I'm not a fan of Linkedin. The importance of it in terms of career isn't wasted on me but the crap people post is often cringeworthy. I've had an awesome year in terms of getting my cleaning team on-side, they were on the cusp of leaving when I joined the company and took them on, nowadays their productivity has doubled, their morale has risen significantly, outgoing costs has halved and they even bought me a "world's best boss" trophy for Christmas.

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I mean that sounds like the standard smug ******** you get on LinkedIn. You should definitely be celebrated for achieving all of that - well done - but nothing is more annoying on LinkedIn than the sort of, "look how wonderful I am" posts.

Personally, I think LinkedIn is awful. I use it to find out people's job titles to put into our CRM, or just to browse at work when I'm bored doing something that appears to be actual work (it's not).

So many people post so much boring crap. The only stuff I post is reposting things that the company have put out, product launces from the company, and articles that are relevant to what I do. Never any crap about myself.
 
I treat LinkedIn as a live CV. If I wouldn't put it in a CV/Cover letter, I wouldn't put it there personally. I'd highlight my achievements, such as mentioned in the OP, certainly, but in professional manner as it might appear on my CV. As for the rest of the "Social Media" crap that people post there I just ignore it.

Nate
 
FishLicker said:
It just comes across as people patting each other on the back at how successful they perceive themselves to be.
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So, it's just like real-life work then? :)

On the flipside, I'm trying to be more active on there. Everyone is their own 'brand' nowadays whether you like it or not. I'd like to improve my brand, gain some industry recognition to enhance my prospects. If I hide away in my current role then feel the need to apply for a new job, I'm going to be the guy they've never heard of. If you post on Linkedin, it's the same as being active in 'real life' industry events' etc. People will know you, get a feel for your interests etc. Every little helps.

I've only posted a few likes, a few interesting links that I used to post on FB.. but hey. I don't see the hate. Why waste time arguing with nobodies on FB when you could be talking about your interests/industry on Linkedin. :)
 
I'm a headhunter. I spend 50%+ of my day on LinkedIn. And I've never posted anything on it.

The feed can be quite a strange place, and increasingly is becoming more personal than professional.
 
I treat it as an online CV as well. Especially useful considering my actual CV is often out of date or not handy to the machine I'm working on.

I like Scam's angle though as I do see the value in "networking" (guh).

I think when they introduced a feed and a like button was when it got silly. It's there for people to have a public profile and to message each other. Doesn't need to be more, we have social media already.
 
You should follow The State of LinkedIn on Twitter. Some of the crap that’s highlighted there leads me to despair. I use LI, but mainly so I have an idea of someone’s background before meeting and also helps if meeting offsite as they have their picture. Besides that it’s degenerated into Facebook and anyone who uses it as that gets muted immediately.
 
Diddums said:
Eurgh, I'm not a fan of Linkedin. The importance of it in terms of career isn't wasted on me but the crap people post is often cringeworthy. I've had an awesome year in terms of getting my cleaning team on-side, they were on the cusp of leaving when I joined the company and took them on, nowadays their productivity has doubled, their morale has risen significantly, outgoing costs has halved and they even bought me a "world's best boss" trophy for Christmas.

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The trophy isn’t in itself what’s worth posting, but instead the learnings for other people; how do they go about achieving it? Why should they aspire to?
 
Kol said:
You should follow The State of LinkedIn on Twitter. Some of the crap that’s highlighted there leads me to despair. I use LI, but mainly so I have an idea of someone’s background before meeting and also helps if meeting offsite as they have their picture. Besides that it’s degenerated into Facebook and anyone who uses it as that gets muted immediately.
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haha! that page is hilarious at times.
 
I post a lot of stuff regarding my coaching and learning courses. As a contractor I feel having a good brand/reputation is extremely important, especially when the field I'm in saturated with some pretty crap people, so being able to stand out on a platform like LinkedIn, where the majority of recruitment happens, is important for me.
 
I very very rarely post anything and just give out the odd like. In fact I don't actually go on there that often (although more in the last year as I changed jobs than in the last 10 years)

I see some people use it as just another social network but I see it as more a work thing which allows you to sell yourself and as it's directly linking to you personally, as well as your employer, its not a good idea to post the usual social media drivel. It's like making connections on there, I'll only add someone who I know through work, either directly or by reputation. I don't want to be connected to someone who I don't know as I don't know what they are really like in a work context.
 
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